All Columns articles – Page 58

  • Fox
    Opinion

    Moral molecules?

    2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Is there a case for regulating the ‘trust’ hormone?

  • Opinion

    The Iron Lady

    2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Howard Peters takes a look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, an Oxford chemistry graduate who became the UK’s only female prime minister

  • Opinion

    Breaking the surface?

    2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Philip Ball is perplexed by the EPSRC’s decision to cut surface science funding

  • Opinion

    Biotech's bravura performer

    2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

    Bibiana Campos Seijo talks to scientist, philanthropist and serial entrepreneur Chris Evans

  • Opinion

    Flashback: 2002 – doping discussion

    2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

    British Olympic skier Alain Baxter had his bronze medal taken away after a post-race drug test showed traces of methamphetamine

  • Opinion

    Hopeahainol A and hopeanol

    2012-04-30T00:00:00Z

    This month's synthesis looks somewhat familiar

  • Opinion

    Help or harm?

    2012-04-30T00:00:00Z

    Are we sufficiently aware of the potential for chemistry to be misused?

  • Opinion

    Scheibel's column

    2012-04-30T00:00:00Z

    Liquid-liquid extraction attracts a little poetic licence

  • Opinion

    Passion of the chemist

    2012-04-30T00:00:00Z

    It took Derek Lowe a while to find his motivation

  • Opinion

    Letters: May 2012

    2012-04-27T09:12:00Z

    The article ’Making Light Work’ (Chemistry World, April 2012, p52) coincided with an alarming Daily Telegraph article relating the near-catastrophic increase in antibiotic resistance due to misuse by the NHS and in agriculture. It seems that big pharma is no longer interested in infection control for two reasons: Any ...

  • Opinion

    Sensory thinking

    2012-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Chemistry could benefit from getting more touchy-feely

  • Opinion

    Sand tunes

    2012-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Why do large bodies of sand seem to ‘sing’?

  • Opinion

    The complex paradox of science

    2012-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Science can provide solutions for society, says Rutger van Santen, but only if it is given the freedom to find the unexpected

  • Opinion

    Be careful what you wish for

    2012-04-01T00:00:00Z

    The struggle for a single unitary European patent may be close to an end, says Darren Smyth, but we must still hold out for an agreement that performs as it should

  • Opinion

    Feeling the burn

    2012-04-01T00:00:00Z

    How long is ‘too long’ in the drug discovery game?

  • Opinion

    Integrity governance, a no brainer

    2012-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Ireland must match recent research investment efforts with appropriate research integrity oversight or risk losing public support, says Maura Hiney

  • Opinion

    Integrity begins at home

    2012-04-01T00:00:00Z

    James Parry argues that safeguarding the integrity and quality of research is best achieved through cultural and not regulatory means

  • Opinion

    It's all about presence

    2012-04-01T00:00:00Z

    I finished last month’s editorial with a question (more about your responses later)

  • Opinion

    Flashback: 2002 – Puck's potion

    2012-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Taking up a challenge from the other RSC - the Royal Shakespeare Company

  • Man in bowler hat with lightbulb above head
    Opinion

    Pirani's gauge

    2012-03-31T00:00:00Z

    A ‘lightbulb moment’ in measuring vacuum pressure